Happy Friday peeps!
After months of non-stop iterations since our early preview in late September, this week was dedicated to various housekeeping tasks. And, truthfully, I also spent a bunch of time making music with the new Logic Pro 12 instead of coding this week 
We did get quite a lot of done still! Here’s the rundown;
New Features
- For artists: added possibility to cancel scheduled events. (In future we’ll add notifications to those listeners who were “going” or “maybe” + notification in artist channel for cancelled events. This way everything is automatic and easy, no need to manually post things everywhere.)
- Created a new notification system that allows displaying of notifications on the site and also multiplexing them to for example email or as native OS-notifications on your phone or desktop. This allows us to create nice UIs and notify you the way you want about everything that happens on the site. The first implementation was api-only, next step is the UI (both for seeing/showing the notifications and configuring how and what you want to see).
Enhancements
- Most image assets on the site are now properly cached. This makes much of the everyday tasks feel much snappier as your browser loads the slow stuff only once.
- Under the hood: major upgrades to the music-link-converer, which is the library that powers the automatic music link conversion in chat. Expect some new features regarding this next week!
- Under the hood: totally revamped logging system for the api and frontend. This enables us move much faster with code changes due to LLM agents getting better visibility and being able to close the loop.
- New admin-tools for better visibility and easier debugging of various issues on the site.
Misc stuff
- Laid out basic plumbing for AI-based tooling for helping artists and users with tasks like scheduling events and toggling settings via the chat. Note: Slipmat continues to endorse human interactions and art but AI-tools are here to stay and we want to stay relevant so we’ll explore ways on how to make AI help in boring and repetitive tasks and interactions with machines in order to give us humans more time to create and enjoy music
